Toward Equity under Health System Reform; A Systematic Review

Intersectoral action for health equity: a rapid systematic review

BACKGROUND Action on the social determinants of health is considered a necessary approach to improving health equity. Most of the social determinants of health lie outside the sphere of the health sector and thus collaboration with governmental and non-governmental sectors outside of health are required to develop policies and programs to improve health equity. Case studies of intersectoral act...

The impact of primary care reform on health system performance in Canada: a systematic review

BACKGROUND We aimed to synthesize the evidence of a causal effect and draw inferences about whether Canadian primary care reforms improved health system performance based on measures of health service utilization, processes of care, and physician productivity. METHODS We searched the Embase, PubMed and Web of Science databases for records from 2000 to September 2015. We based our risk of bias...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

A Valuable Contribution toward Adopting Systematic Review in Environmental Health

[Health reform, equity and the right to health in Colombia].

The author develops a long-term perspective to assess advances in equity and the right to health in the Colombian health system reform. In a restricted political system, actors in the field of health in Colombia have chosen individualistic alternatives to legalize inequities in individual purchasing power for services. Despite the complex regulations established in the General System for Social...